Winter 2026

The Long Game of Microbiome Science

Looking beyond the hype, three experts explain what research on the gut microbiome might actually deliver

• Biological Sciences
• Discovery

The View of Health Care From the Oval Office

David Blumenthal discusses his new book, Whiplash, which covers 15 volatile years in American health care policy

• Books
• Science and Society
• History

How Blue Light Kills Superbugs

Photomedicine offers a promising new avenue of treatment to combat the crisis of antibiotic resistance

• Infectious Disease
• Discovery

The Birth of Parallel Imaging

How a doodle on a napkin changed medical imaging and launched a young doctor’s career

• Imaging
• Discovery
• Books

Siddhartha Mukherjee’s Evolving View of Cancer

The physician and author on ecology, oncology, and cancer’s expanding cosmos

• Cancer
• Art and Medicine
• Books